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Title
Assistant Vice President for Research CyberinfrastructureOffice Building
Morrill HallOffice
208AMailing Address
Morrill Hall 208AIT Research Computing-Box 2201
University Station
Brookings, SD 57007
Biography
Nineteen years of leadership experience that includes enterprise network infrastructure, server systems and research cyberinfrastructure (computing, data flow and storage) with a demonstrated performance in providing creative solutions within public higher education. Skilled in grant proposal writing/project coordination and multi-state and multi-institutional collaboration and personnel and operations management.Social Media Links
Education
- Ph.D. in agricultural, biosystems and mechanical engineering | South 啵啵直播秀 State University
- Dissertation Research: Modeling Algal Bloom Risk in Fresh Water Lakes Using Artificial Intelligence Deep Learning Networks (May 2024)
- Dissertation Abstract: South 啵啵直播秀 has a wide diversity of freshwater lakes used for many purposes, including water consumption and recreational activities. Many of these lakes are threatened in the summer months with harmful blue-green algal bloom conditions that are adversely affecting use. This impairment increases oxygen depletion within the water body which is needed to sustain aquatic organisms and is also responsible for the further proliferation of harmful algal bloom conditions (HABs) that make a lake toxic for recreational use. Economic impacts can be devastating due to the loss of revenue resulting from the lack of lake use as a drinking water source and for recreational purposes. Early algal bloom prediction could provide critical information for water resources managers, state and federal agencies to aid in early detection for planning, potential pollution mitigation activities, and for enacting state and federal water quality standards associated with point and nonpoint sources of pollution.
- This study aims to determine the factors contributing to the growth of hazardous algal blooms in freshwater lakes, including human activities, environmental conditions, and characteristics of the lake and surrounding land. To achieve this, the study will use historical spectral data and critical factors that increase the growth of HABs to develop deep neural network prediction models. These models will attempt to predict/forecast algal bloom risk zones in several freshwater lakes in eastern South 啵啵直播秀. The accuracy of the models will be evaluated by comparing predicted chlorophyll-a measurements to actual measurements collected from the lakes through statistical analysis.
- M.S. in Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering | South 啵啵直播秀 State University
- Research Thesis: Modeling of Sugarbeet Quality Using Vegetative Index, Statistical and Artificial Neural Networks
2009, Activities and Societies: IEEE, ASABE - Scope: Five years of Landsat 5 and 7 multispectral data from over 1000 sugar beet fields.
- Tested different vegetative index approaches and investigated the potential statistical link between remote sensing canopy and sucrose concentration.
- Developed artificial neural network and conventional multiple linear regression models, and applied them to new data sets for whole-field sucrose concentration prediction analysis.
- Examined the correlation of the artificial neural network and conventional multiple linear regression sucrose model prediction results with measured sucrose concentration, assessing model performance over multiple site-years.
- Compared the effectiveness of multiple linear regression models to artificial neural network models for sucrose predictions.
- Research Thesis: Modeling of Sugarbeet Quality Using Vegetative Index, Statistical and Artificial Neural Networks
- B.S. in agricultural and bioystems engineering | South 啵啵直播秀 State University
Academic Interests
- High performance computing
- Remote sensing, image processing and machine vision
- Methods: GIS, systems modeling and integration, spatial analysis, big data
Committees and Professional Memberships
Committees:
- University Strategic Planning Committee
- Northern Tier Network Consortium (NTNC) State Representative, Steering and Program Committee Member
- Great Plains Network (GPN): Cyberinfrastructure Program, University Representative
- XSEDE Campus Champion Coordinator, Region 3 Lead (North 啵啵直播秀, South 啵啵直播秀, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, Illinois)
- SDSU IT Committee
Professional Memberships:
- ASABE
- IEEE
- ACM
- Alpha Epsilon
- Order of the Engineer
Grants
Active Funded Initiatives:
- RCN:CIP: A Connect.CI-based Community-Wide Mentorship Network (CCMNet) for the Advancement of Science and Engineering Research and Education. (Role: Project PI)
- 啵啵直播秀 Number: 2227656; Principal Investigator: Kevin Brandt; Co-principal investigator: Laura Christopherson, Marisa Brazil, Torey Battelle, Vikram Gazula.
- Organization: South 啵啵直播秀 State University; NSF Organization: OAC Start Date: 1/01/2023; 啵啵直播秀 Amount: $999,797.
- CC* Team: Great Plains Regional CyberTeam (Role: Local PI, CyberTeam Project Lead)
- 啵啵直播秀 Number: 1925681; Principal Investigator: Grant Scott; Co-Principal Investigator: Douglas Jennewein, Daniel Andresen, Derek Weitzel, Carrie Brown, David Swanson, James Deaton, Bradley Spitzbart, George Louthan, Henry Neeman, Kevin Brandt.
- Organization: University of Missouri-Columbia; NSF Organization: OAC Start Date: 7/01/2019; 啵啵直播秀 Amount: $1,399,479.00
- 啵啵直播秀 Number: 1925681; Principal Investigator: Grant Scott; Co-Principal Investigator: Douglas Jennewein, Daniel Andresen, Derek Weitzel, Carrie Brown, David Swanson, James Deaton, Bradley Spitzbart, George Louthan, Henry Neeman, Kevin Brandt.
- CC* Regional: SD-REDI: The South 啵啵直播秀 Research and Education Data Interchange (Role: Local PI)
- 啵啵直播秀 Number: 2201822; Principal Investigator: Liza Clark; Co-Principal Investigator: Alyssa Kiesow, Debbi Bumpous, Kevin Brandt, Ryan Johnson.
- Organization: South 啵啵直播秀 Board of Regents; NSF Organization: OAC Start Date: 7/01/2022; 啵啵直播秀 Amount: $998,750.
Areas of Research
- Machine learning
- Remote sensing
- Precision agriculture
Publications
Products
- 鈥 | Practice and Experience in Advanced Research Computing.鈥 Acm.org, 2020, DOI:10.1145/3311790.3396629
- 鈥.鈥 Aptaracorp.com, 2020. Accessed Jan. 12, 2021
- Brandt, Kevin L. 鈥.鈥 Open PRAIRIE: Open Public Research Access Institutional Repository and Information Exchange, 2016. Accessed Jan. 12, 2021
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